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A MESSAGE FROM 
THE RURAL SCHOOL 
EXHIBIT OF OREGON 



EDUCATIONAL PALACE 

PANAMA -PACIFIC 

EXPOSITION 

1915 




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Issued by 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

STATE OF OREGON 



J. A. CHURCHILL, 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

E. F, CARLETON, 

Assistant State Superintendent. 

FRANK K. WELLES, 
Assistant State Superintendent. 



Field Workers Industrial Fairs, 

N. C. MARIS, 

L. P. HARRINGTON. 



Manual prepared by Mr, Carleton. 






BOYS AND GIRLS 

INDUSTRIAL CLUBS OF 

OREGON 



THE industrial club work of the boys and girls of Oregon has 
been most successful principally on account of the manner in 
which the work was first organized. The Superintendent of 
Public Instruction receives annually a special appropriation of 
six thousand dollars for the promotion and encouragement of this work. 
Two assistants are employed who spend all of their time in field work, 
organizing clubs, holding community meetings and acting as judges in 
local industrial fairs. Each assistant has a stereopticon and a complete 
set of slides which illustrates what is being done in various parts 
of the State. 

Cooperating with the State Department of Education, the Oregon 
Agricultural College prepares for each project a number of bulletins. 
As soon as a club is formed the names enrolled are sent to the 
Extension Department of the College, so that the proper bulletins 
may be mailed to the club members. For example, all members of 
the potato-growing clubs receive the following bulletins: 

1. Potato Sections and Potato Soils. 

2. Potato Pests and Diseases. 

3. Varieties of Potatoes; Selection of Seed. 

4. Preparation of Seed Bed and Methods of Planting. 

5. Cultivation and Care of Growing Crop. 

6. Harvesting; Hill; Selection of Seed. 

7. Selection of Exhibition Tubers; Potato Judging. 

The United States Department of Agriculture is the third cooperating 
agent in this work. This department assists in planning the work, sends 
a representative at least once a year to speak at public meetings held 
throughout the State; and through the franking privilege, makes it 
possible to mail the bulletins to the boys and girls. When one stops 
to consider that there are now more than 12,000 children enrolled in 
these clubs in Oregon, one can realize how important it is to have the 
assistance of the Federal Government. On the other hand, the govern- 
ment is more than repaid by the interest aroused in scientific farming, 
and the actual increase in a higher grade of products. 



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Clans (Jharley of Jackson County, Oregon, won the State prize 
last year on his corn. This year fifty boys throughout his county 
secured seed corn from him and have each from one-eighth to one- 
(luarter of an acre of corn, which at the present time promises an 
abundant yield. The boy sold also enough of the seed corn to the 
farmers of his community to enable him to i)ay all of his expenses 
for a year in high school. 




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Oregon is such an extensive State with resources so diversified 
that it was thought best to have a number of different projects, so 
that in each community the children could choose the work best 
adapted to that ])articular section. An idea of the size of the State 
may be gained by exi)laining that the area of Oregon exceeds that of 
the New England states combined, by 30,27 5 square miles; that the 
county of Malheur in Oregon exceeds in area New Hampshire or Massa- 
cliu.setts; and that Harney County, Oregon, is even larger than Malheur. 
In some localities the farmers are engaged in wheat raising, another 
sc(;tion is noted for fruit, Douglas County is famous for its turkeys; 
and the coast counties for their dairies. In fact, nearly every product 



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PAGE FIVE 



native to a temperate climate is produced in tliis State. T^ast year 
ten projects were undertaken; tliis year tlie number was increased 
to twelve. A list of these is given on page seven of this i)amplilet. 

The work of these clubs is stimulated by district, county aird State 
fairs, where the products of the children's work is displayed and 
judged. The awards are based upon a score which emphasizes the 
record of the contestant. This makes it possible to eliminate all 
tendency to display articles which the children have not themselves 
liroduced, and shows how well the boys and ;!,iils iire I'ollowin.si,' tho. 
bulletins of the Agricultural College. 




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INuhAi JiN CAiNNlNG TROJiOCT 



The culmination of the exhibits is reached at the State Fair held 
at Salem, Oregon, about the first of October each year. The Fair Board 
has set aside one of the largest buildings for an "Educational Build- 
ing," where more than twenty thousand people view each day the 
children's products. Each evening a musical and literary program is 
given by the school children and students of the State colleges. So 
much interest has been aroused in this work that it was possible this 
year to send to the exposition at San Francisco for a two weeks' visit, 
the State prize winner in each project. Public-spirited men contributed 



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money for the prizes, and next year, they will send all State prize winners 
to the Agricultural College for a summer course. Through these clubs, 
the standard school plan, and the playground movement, the rural 
schools of Oregon are developing a happy, healthy, efficient group of 
boys and girls in every section of the State who are going to revolu- 
tionize country life in this State and make the farm home the most 
delightful place to live. This is the message the Rural School Exhibit 
of Oregon in the Educational Palace at the Exposition has for the 
world. 




A YOUTHFUL DAIRYMAN 



INDUSTRIAL CLUBS PAGE SEVEN 

CLUB PROJECTS FOR GIRLS 

1. Sewing. The making and repairing of garments and other articles of 
wearing apparel for member's own use. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915. 

2. Baking. The baking of bread and cake for home consumption. Enroll 
not later than March 15, 1915. 



CLUB PROJECTS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS 

3. Canning. The canning of fruits, vegetables, etc., for home use, or for sale. 
Enroll not later than March 15, 1915. 

4. Vegetable Gardening. The growing of the greatest possible amount of 
vegetables, at the least possible expense. Div. I. — A garden area of at least one 
square r»d but not more than fifteen square rods. Div. II. — A garden area of at 
least 16 square rods. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915. 

5. Poultry Raising. Div. I. — The care and management of five or more laying 
hens for a period of at least six months. Enroll not later than January 1, 1915. 
Div. II — The incubation of at least three settings of hen's eggs and the care and 
management of the chicks for a period ef at least eight months. Enroll not later 
than March 15, 1915. Div. Ill — The management, for breeding purposes, of 
two turkey hens and one gobbler. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915. 
Div. IV — The incubation of at least one setting of turkey eggs, and the care and 
management of the young turkeys for a period of at least six months. Enroll 
not later than March 15, 1915. 

6. Dairy Herd Record-Keeping. Obtaining the milk, butterfat, and feed 
records of two or more cows for a period of at least eight months. Enroll not 
later than January 1, 1915. 



CLUB PROJECTS FOR BOYS 

7. Pig Raising. Div. I — The care and management of a brood sow and litter, 
the work to extend over a period of at least eight months. Enroll not later than 
January 1, 1915. Div. II — The care and management of one pig for a period of 
at least six months. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915. 

8. Corn Growing. The growing of the largest crop at the least expense on 
one-sixteenth acre or more of ground. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915.* 

9. Potato Growing. The growing of the largest crop at the least expense on 
one-sixteenth acre or more of ground. Enroll not later than March 15, 1915.* 

10. Fruit Growing. The pruning and spraying of the trees, cultivating and 
fertilizing of the soil, harvesting, packing, and marketing of the crop and disposal 
of the by-products. Div. I — Ten or more bearing apple trees, the basis. Enroll 
not later than January 1, 1915. Div. II — Ten or more bearing pear trees, the 
basis. Enroll not later than January 1, 1915. Div. Ill — Ten or more bearing 
prune trees, the basis. Enroll not later than January 1, 1915. 

11. Field-Pea Growing. (For the Eastern Oregon Wheat Belt.) The grow- 
ing of at least one acre of field peas in the rotation with wheat, wherever the 
rainfall exceeds fifteen inches. One acre or more, the basis. Enroll not later 
than March 15, 1915. 

12. Seed Grain Selection. Div. I — The special preparation of the seed bed, 
selection of seed, or management of one or more acres of wheat, oats, or barley 
for seed and the selection in the field, before harvest, of at least one to two 
bushels of grain in the head for planting a special seed grain plot next year. 
Enroll not later than January 1, 1915. Div. II — The selection in the field, just 
before harvest, of one or more bushels of wheat or barley heads, or oat panicles 
for the purpose of planting a special seed breeding plot next year. Enroll not 
later than March 15, 1915. 



* Contestants desiring membership in the national Demonstration Clubs must 
grow at least one acre. 








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